Race, Ethnicity, and Gender
Selected Readings

Second Edition

Edited by:

Joseph F. Healey - Christopher Newport University, USA
Eileen O'Brien - Saint Leo University, Virginia, University of Richmond, USA

Other Titles in:
Sociology (General) | Sociology of Gender | Sociology of Race & Ethnicity

July 2007 | 504 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

This book of readings is designed to be both a stand alone reader as well as a companion title to Healey's Diversity and Society, Second Edition. The book is a unique mix of first-person accounts, competing views on various issues, and it includes articles from the research literature. The Narrative Portraits and most of the Current Debates articles are from Healey's Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Class, Fourth Edition. It will provide orientation on the issues which many instructors utilize when teaching the race and ethnicity course.

PART I. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF MINORITY GROUPS IN THE UNITED STATES

1. Diversity in the United States: Questions and Concepts

Narrative Portrait: The Social Construction of Racial Identity

Developing a Racial Identity

Lawrence Hill

Narrative Portrait: The Cultural Sources of Prejudice

Kaffir Boy

Mark Mathabane

Readings

Prejudice, Discrimination, and Racism

Norman Yetman

Using Racial and Ethnic Concepts: The Critical Case of Very Young Children

Debra van Ausdale and Joe R. Feagin

Constructing Categories of Difference

Karen Rosenblum and Toni-Michelle Travis

Current Debates: Race and Sports

The Dominance of Black Athletes is Genetic

Jon Entine

The Argument for Genetic Differences is Deeply Flawed

Kenan Malik

Debate Questions to Consider

2. Assimilation and Pluralism

Narrative Portrait: Assimilation, Then and Now

Choosing a Dream: Italians in Hell's Kitchen

Mario Puzo

Always Running: La Vida Loca

Luiz Rodrigues

Readings

Divided Fates

M. Patricia Fernandez-Kelly and Richard Schauffler

Fifteen Years on the Bottom Rung

Anthony DePalma

Opening Faces: The Politics of Cosmetic Surgery and Asian American Women

Eugenia Kaw

Current Debates: English Only?

English Only Will Speed the Assimilation of Immigrants

Mauro Mujica

Bilingualism Should Be Encouraged

Aida Hurtado and Luis A. Vega

Debate Questions to Consider

PART II. THE EVOLUTION OF DOMINANT-MINORITY RELATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES

3. The Development of Dominant-Minority Relations in Pre-Industrial America: The Origins of Slavery

Narrative Portrait: A Slave's Life

Life as a Slave Girl

Harriet Jacobs

Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb

Henry Bibb

Readings

Slavery Unwilling to Die

Joe R. Feagin

Jezebel and Mammy: The Mythology of Female Slavery

Deborah Gray White

Current Debates: How Did Slavery Affect the Origins of African American Culture?

Slavery Created African American Culture

Stanley Elkins

African American Culture Was Created by an Interplay of Elements From Africa and America

William D. Piersen

Debate Questions to Consider

4. Industrialization and Dominant-Minority Relations: From Slavery to Segregation and the Coming of Post-Industrial Society

Narrative Portrait: The Kitchenette

Death on the City Pavement

Richard Wright

Readings

The Meaning of Emancipation According to Black Women

Angela Davis

What is Affirmative Action?

Fred L. Pincus

Adolescent Masculinity, Homophobia, and Violence: Random School Shootings, 1982-2001

Michael Kimmel and Matthew Mahler

Current Debates: Affirmative Action

Affirmative Action Casts Suspicions on Legitimate Black Achievement and Depicts African Americans as Incapable

Thomas Sowell

Why We Still Need Affirmative Action

Orlando Patterson

Debate Questions to Consider

PART III. UNDERSTANDING DOMINANT -MINORITY RELATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES TODAY

5. African Americans

Narrative Portrait: The Persistence of Racism

Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Ability To Alter Public Space

Brent Staples

The Mulatto Millennium

Danzy Senna

Readings

I Am Not a Racist But...

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and Tyrone A. Forman

Race and Criminalization: Black Americans and the Punishment Industry

Angela Davis

The Elephant in the Living Room: The Issue of Race in Close Black/White Friendships

Kathleen Odell Korgen

Current Debates: Reparations

Reparations for African Americans in Historical Context

Joe R. Feagin and Eileen O'Brien

Reparations Are an Idea Whose Time Has Come

Manning Marable

Blood Money: Why I Don't Want Reparations for Slavery

John McWhorter

Debate Questions to Consider

6. Native Americans

Narrative Portrait: Native Americans' Experiences and Perspectives

Lakota Woman

Mary Crow Dog

Talking to the Owls and Butterflies

John Lame Deer

Readings

Growing Up Indian

Leonard Peltier

From the Ground Up

Charon Astoyer

Current Debates: Are Indian Sports Team Mascots Offensive?

Indian Symbols and Mascots Are Not Offensive

S.L. Price and Andrea Woo

Mascots Are Offensive

C. Richard King, Ellen J. Staurowsky, Lawrence Baca, R. Davis, and Cornel Pewewardy

Debate Questions to Consider

7. Hispanic Americans

Narrative Portrait: The Meaning of Macho

Americanization is Tough on Macho

Rose Del Castillo Guilbault

Narrative Portrait: Gender Images of Latinas

The Island Travels With You

Judith Ortiz Cofer

Readings

Mock Spanish: A Site for the Indexical Reproduction of Racism in American English

Jane H. Hill

Seeing More Than Black and White: Latinos, Racsim, and the Cultural Divide

Elizabeth Martinez

Not White or Black, but In Between: Latinos and Asian Americans Expanding the Language of Colorblind Racism

Eileen O'Brien

Current Debates: Is Americanization Threatened by" Hispanization"?

How to Make an American

John Fonte

Why We Shouldn't Worry About the "Hispanization" of the United States

Francis Fukuyama

Debate Questions to Consider

8. Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders

Narrative Portrait: The Relocation

We Were Just Japs

Joseph Kurihara

Readings

The Interrelationship Between Anti-Asian Violence and Asian America

Victor M. Hwang

South Korean Sex Slaves in the United States and Canada

Salim Jiwa

Current Debates: Asian American "Success": What Are the Dimensions, Causes, and Implications for Other Minority Groups?

The Success of Japanese Americans Is Cultural

Harry Kitano

The "Success" of Chinese Americans Is Structural

Alejandro Portes and Min Zhou

The Success of Asian Americans Has Been Exaggerated in Part to Criticize Other Minority Groups

Ronald Takaki

Debate Questions to Consider

9. New Americans: Immigration and Assimilation

Narrative Portrait: Two Stories of Immigration

Life in the Enclave

Ho Yang

Life as a Refugee

Vo Thi Tam

Readings

Immigrants in American Society

Philip Martin and Elizabeth Midgely

Discrimination and the American Dream: The Case of Middle Eastern Americans

Amir Marvasti and Karyn D. McKinney

Globalization and Its Mal(e)contents: The Gendered Moral and Political Economy of Terrorism

Michael S. Kimmel

Current Debates: Is Immigration Harmful or Helpful to the United States?

Immigration Is Harmful

Peter Brimelow

Immigration Is Not Harmful

Reynolds Farley

We Need to Reframe the Immigration Debate

George Borjas

Debate Questions to Consider

10. White Ethnic Groups

Narrative Portrait: Ethnicity, Prejudice, and the Irish Political Machine

Shadow of the Past

David Gray

Readings

How Jews Became White

Karen Brodkin

White Privilege and Male Privilege

Peggy McIntosh

Euphemized Racism: Moral qua Racial Boundaries

Michele Lamont

Current Debates: The Racial Identities of Whites and Blacks

The Need to Understand Whiteness

Richard Dyer

Symbolic and Involuntary Ethnicity

Mary Waters

Debate Questions to Consider

PART IV. CONCLUSIONS

11. Antiracist and Feminist Solutions

The Emperor's New Clothes

Patricia Williams

The Racial Preference Licensing Act

Derrick Bell

The Redefinition and Subversion of Comparable Worth in New York State: "We Did It Our Way"

Ronnie Steinberg and Jennifer Hickman

Building Connections with Antiracism and Feminism

Eileen O'Brien and Michael P. Armato

Abolish the White Race by Any Means Necessary

Noel Ignatiev and John Garvey

Being an Ally

Paul Kivel

Commitment to Combat Racism

Judith Katz

Tools for White Guys Who Are Working for Social Change

Chris Crass

Discussion Questions

My course is geared towards students just taking this class as an core requirement or as an introduction to the sociology or social work major.

If this were an upper-level sociology or social work course, this book would be more appropriate for the type of course I'd build around the material.

Mr Michael Dixon

Sociology Social Work Dept, Manchester College

January 27, 2015

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Race Ethnicity and Gender. Good readings and chapter overviews. Current

Dr John Hudgins

Social Science Dept, Coppin State University

April 16, 2014

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